I'm not sure if I would even bother getting it if it didn't have online. Multiplayer focused games in 2015 absolutely need it. I'm glad Nintendo seems to be starting to realize that.. Triforce Heroes has online as well.

Has Blast Ball been this all along? Kinda interesting that they didn't mention that during the championship, though seeing the playstyle I immediately thought "Is this the Prime engine?" Guesd that confirms it.

Pop in on M2K2 after BB:OB knows how long, am not disappointed in the MP:FF posts.

Haven't kept up with Ninty's E3 too tightly, so seeing NintendoLife post about "Metroid-like Blast Ball", only for this to result... But, hey, maybe in a s h o c k i n g t w i s t, it was a spider ball all along~!

Kensuke Tanabe says Federation Force was made for the New 3DS because he thought the controls of the New 3DS would work well for a FPS and he thought that having a new Prime to launch alongside the hardware would be nice. If that means the game is New 3DS exclusive, then I don't think I'll be buying it. This game is not worth buying a new system for :| honestly it kind of pisses me off that they're releasing 3DS games that I can't play without buying a whole new system even though I already bought a 3DS

Hmm... interesting. We get a spin-off that does not even stay true to why people became attracted to the series which isolation and exploration. As seen in KM's post, broken promises rises when we thought Nintendo promised us 2d/3d being released but this however leads us back to the dark age for the next few years waiting for that light to return in the next gen.

I remember reading an interview of the guy who made Other M and he was asked why he thought it did so poorly. His long crappy answer, and the reality of Other M, made it clear that Nintendo has absolutely NO idea what people like about metroid at all. Maybe the only hope we will ever have for getting another good metroid game is if they let another american studio take over the development. Why won't they? They don't value it very much and they aren't doing anything with it. They might as well.